Gay Clifford Poetry 1978-1984

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Gay Clifford Poetry, Accession 11268, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Creator:
Pamela Clifford
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Gay Clifford Poetry, Accession 11268, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of four typescript sets of poetry by Gay Allis Rose Clifford(1943-), all written between 1978 and 1984, when the effects of a cerebral hemorrhage prevented her from further work. Eighty-nine of these poems have been published in Poems by Gay Clifford Introduced by Germaine Greer(Special Collections PR 6053 .L492P6 1990). Each poem includes the date of composition and revision with an occasional autograph change or correction.

Having obtained a First Class degree and a Bachelor's of Philosophy at Oxford in 1964, Clifford pursued a career in English literature at the University of Warwick, the University of Virginia, Emory in Atlanta, and at the University College of London (summer 1978). She also wrote Notes on the Merchant of Veniceand The Transformations of Allegory(1974).

Acquisition information:
These poems were given to the University of Virginia Library on January 24, 1997, by Pamela Clifford, Minchinhampton, England.
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Physical location:
Physical description:
4 sets